Triasha

Don't have to worry about your friend's motives if you honestly want to help them.

Travel a little bit. Spend most of your time at home, either enjoying the simple pleasures, or with friends and family.

So what if they are taking advantage of you? You are rich! What's the downside?

Sure, you have to be vigilant against con artists, grifters, and addicts. You have to draw a line somewhere. Maybe don't fund their casino trips, drug trips, or Candy Crush high score.

Extravagant birthday gifts? College tuition for your niblings? Why not?

If someone is lying to you, you will find out eventually. I'd rather have friends now and let future me deal with the fallout from the grifters.

Inns like that existed during the enlightenment up through the invention of the railroad. In the medieval era you slept in a church or maybe someone's home.

I just figured the hole is that deep.

Growing up my family could pile into a van for a 2 week road trip or Disney vacation every summer. My grandparents were still working at that time, grandfather was a small business owner mechanic. Grandmother was a part time bookkeeper for a non profit.

To have that financial independence today, I would need triple my income, or my wife and I would need to double our income.

I figure a decade+ of real wage gains across the economy would approximate that. Maybe not for me personally, but for the average.

The article is real and "shit still sucks" can both be true.

My thought upon reading the headline was "gonna need another 12 years before people start thinking we have turned the corner for the better."

I respectfully disagree.

This both sides narrative is FUD, and it's dangerous for Americans, Ukrainians, even Palestinians.

Withholding your vote from Biden is peak virtue signalling. It does nothing for Palestinians, they are even more screwed with Trump than they are now. Trump already screwed them over moving the US embassy to Jerusalem and becoming the only nation to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli Capital.

Protest, boycott, form a union or convince yours to strike, by all means, electoral politics is not the only or the most important political arena.

But complaining about Biden online to people that already don't like him is worse than useless.

Heitterslly said he would be.

As always, it's complicated.

And the courts are taking more and more power from the legislature, and the president picks the judges, so it's still critical.

I would say you exaggerate, and you should not vote and let the adults decide your government for you.

Thank you for sharing joy and light in this time of darkness.

Yes really. Obama promised hope and change, and with a few notable exceptions, he delivered not fucking things up for 8 years.

Biden promised to clean up Trump's mess. He's done this, and taken massive action on decarbonization, and kick started American Industry, and revitilised the Labor movement, and added protections trans people and women's healthcare. Obama's admin delived one major legislative accomplishment a year for 2 years and then putzed around with executive orders. Biden slammed the exactive order button the first month and then kept pounding it, while passing major legislative wins. He got Ukraine aid through a hostile Congress for God's sake and that war is turning around. Biden has done more good in 4 years than Obama managed in 8.

I voted for Bernie. I'm still sore that he lost that primary, but Biden has legit impressed me both with how progressive he has gone and how adroitly he manuved through the legislative process.

I'm happy they did the right thing. I lived under Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump. (Don't really remember Bush Sr or Regan personally) And one team helps us, and the other fucks us over. I will remember this in the voting booth.